Posted on 09/16/2009 11:44:35 PM PDT by kingattax
Islamic countries distrust the United States under the leadership of President Obama about as much as they did under President George W. Bush. What's going on?
Throughout the Bush presidency, opinion polling from the Pew Research Center trumpeted America’s “abysmal” approval ratings across the globe. The problem, pollsters suggested with numbing regularity, was that a “cowboy president” had inflamed the Muslim world—and America’s European allies—with his “unilateral” war on terrorism. The remedy, of course, was a new administration with a fresh approach: a president committed to multilateralism, smart diplomacy, and American soft power. Right on cue, a Pew report hailed Barack Obama’s election for inspiring “global confidence” in U.S. leadership and rescuing America’s reputation from eternal perdition.
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I think a lot of this is brought on by the fact that foreigners know they won’t be able to come to America anymore when their CommieCare fails them at home.
Anti-Americanism: Alive and Well in the Age of Obama
Hell, our President is the leader of Anti-Americanism
-— and very proud of it!!!
Most of the Islam world respects strength and despises weakness. I don’t know how one conducts a poll of backward muslim countries when most of the people are taught to hate the US since birth. They know nothing else except maybe the filth they see from Hollywood. Quite frankly, it doesn’t matter to me if they hate us as long as they hate us from a distance.
Maybe those countries are just plain racist.
Alex, I'm going to go with "Reality" for $100.
you hit the ‘daily double’
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